Melanie Jackson: ‘From the sky’: flight cadets writing about life in the air at the RAF Cadet College, Cranwell, Lincolnshire, 1921-1938

Dan Ellin: 5 Group News

 Nicholas Bennett: Mass Observation in Boston

Claudia Capancioni: Transnational antifascism and resistance in Italy 1920s-1940s through women’s life writing

 Richard Morris: ‘Writer Command’: the work and influences of the Air Ministry’s wartime Directorate of Public Relations

Andrew Walker: Air power in two world wars: representations in the Lincolnshire press

 Kandace Chimbiri: Neglected narratives: writing The Story of Britain’s Black Airmen.

 Russell Smith: The call of the Mother Country: writing the story of  Caribbean RAF service volunteers

 Richard Overy: Writing the bombing war

 Andrew Jackson, Rural England through War and Peace. The Literary work of Bernard Gilbert (1882-1927) (Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, 2024)

Ralph Ottey, A Jamaican in Lincolnshire. From the RAF to a Life in Boston (Lincoln Record Society, 2024)

Richard Morris, Dam Buster. Barnes Wallis: An Engineer’s Life  (paperback) (Weidenfeld, 2024)

Michael Bassett, David Stocker & Richard Morris (eds), Freiburg Letters: An Englishwoman in the Third Reich Writes to her Missing Husband, 1942-1946 (Tyas, 2023)

P. & M. Malcolmson (eds), A Parson in Wartime. The Boston Diary of Revd. Arthur Hopkins, 1942-1945 (Lincoln Record Society, 2017)

David Stocker: Dorothy May’s Freiburg Letters

Martin Pickard: Dorothy May’s letters and the theatre in Freiburg

 To end Session 6: Donation of the Dorothy May Collection to the IBCC Digital Archive: Michael Bassett

Robert Owen: Memorials and memorialisation

Heather Hughes: The emergence of ‘Bomber County’

Andrew Jackson: The Hedges letters: technological innovation, scientific secrets, and T-Force

 Lives and Letters: Reflections on Writing the Air War From Personal and Biographical Perspectives

Maureen Dickson (Pilots and Soldiers of the Caribbean)

Richard Morris (Dam Buster. Barnes Wallis and other biographies)

David Stocker (Freiburg Letters))

Steve Darlow (The Valentine Letters play and other works)

Former Librarian, Lincoln Cathedral; honorary general editor of the Lincoln Record Society; editor/author of several works published by the Lincoln Record Society.

Professor of Cultural Heritage Studies and Head, IBCC Digital Archive, University of Lincoln; author of numerous works on imperial history, difficult/neglected heritage and the memorialisation of war; project lead, Reimagining Lincolnshire.

Former staff conductor, Kiel and Nuremberg opera houses; more recently Head of Music, Opera North; Visiting Lecturer, University of Leeds; Guest Tutor, Royal Northern College of Music; PhD research in early 19th-century German opera.

Professor of English Literature at Bishop Grosseteste University; exec member of Tennyson Society and British Association for Victorian Studies; has published on women’s lives in Lincolnshire, intergenerational intellectual legacies; Anglo-Italian cultural connections.

Head of Research at Bishop Grosseteste University. He is also Professor of Local, Regional and Landscape History, and has published widely on Lincolnshire’s history and heritage.

Published fiction author; former Heritage Ambassador for the Tottenham Hotspur Foundation; volunteer at RAF Hendon; PhD scholarship candidate, University of Glasgow, researching race relations in the wartime and postwar RAF.

Author of several books on Black British history for young readers, including The Story of Britain’s Black Airmen.

PhD Candidate at Bishop Grosseteste University, researching the interwar Cadet College at RAF Cranwell and the wider historical development of flight poetry.

Visiting Professor of Medieval Studies, University of Leeds; NLHF Trustee; Member of National Trust Council; President, Lincoln Record Society; widely published on the medieval archaeology of Lincolnshire and other regions of the UK; co-editor of Freiburg Letters.

Professor Emeritus, University of Huddersfield; Visiting Fellow, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds; author of Time’s Anvil; biographer of Guy Gibson, Leonard Cheshire and Barnes Wallis; co-editor of Freiburg Letters.

Formerly Vice Principal, Rose Bruford College; author of numerous works on the history of Lincolnshire and editor of several volumes of the Survey of Lincoln; Chair, Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology.

Author of Pilots and Soldiers of the Caribbean and a noted speaker on the role of Black service personnel in both world wars.

Fellow, Royal Historical Society; Fellow, British Academy; Honorary Professor, University of Exeter; leading authority on the bombing war in Europe, 1939-1945; author of over 30 works on the Second World War, Nazi Germany and the history of the RAF; member of advisory panel for the International Bomber Command Centre exhibition, 2015-2018.

Archivist at the International Bomber Command Centre Digital Archive at the University of Lincoln; Trustee of RAF Ingham Heritage Centre; PhD on ground crew in RAF Bomber Command (Warwick).

Aviation historian;  Official Historian and Trustee of No. 617 Squadron Association; author of numerous books on 617 Squadron and its members.